Grid Computing Summer School in Sweden

Grids underpin the rapidly emerging e-Infrastructure and Cyberinfrastructure. This will transform information-intensive and model-based thinking. It will enable global collaborations to make rapid advances addressing challenges in science, economics, design, engineering and medicine, in fact in all walks of life.

The School will bring together world experts and enthusiastic students. It will examine the conceptual and practical underpinnings of today’s grids. Experts will discuss the challenges of building and sustaining e-Infrastructure, report its rapid influence on the way we research, design and make decisions. They will share their vision of the developments and challenges ahead.

The School will consist of lectures in the morning and practical exercises in the afternoon. Lectures will tackle the principles, technologies, experiences and methods of using Grids. They will also review the research perspectives and report recent significant successes. Equipment will be available for the practical exercises at the School site, Gripsholmsviken Hotell & Konferens, in Mariefred. The work will be both challenging and rewarding. A social programme will support the curriculum and help students to form lasting friendships and enhance collaborative research. To support the hands-on laboratory sessions, a testbed will be established that will host widely used middleware produced by projects in the USA, Europe and Asia. The testbed will be connected to major international Grids and provide a rich environment for hands-on learning and experimentation. Exercises and team work will encourage students to learn by using this testbed.

Students will be fired with enthusiasm, equipped with practical skills and will leave with many shared experiences, new friends and a new capacity for research into and using advanced distributed computing systems.